Iggy Azalea Thinks Cultural Appropriation Is 'Subjective'

Does Iggy Azalea appropriate black culture? Well, if you ask her, the answer depends on who you ask.

During a recent interview with Cosmopolitan, the 29-year-old Australian rapper —who's long been accused of profiting off black culture with her "blaccent," surgery enhanced body, and colonizer-style approach to black culture — made it clear that she doesn't really care what people have to say about who she is or what she does.

While Iggy admitted that she's come a long way from her days of rapping about being a "runaway slave-master" — she reportedly gets people's frustrations with that now — she said she's not sorry for her past. In fact, she believes people's thoughts about her alleged appropriation of black culture are subjective. "You could ask one person of the same race, ‘Does this affect you?’ and they will say yes,” Iggy explained. "But another person will say no. They could be from the same place, same everything, but have different perspectives about it."

The In My Defense rapper added that she can't really say sorry if she's going to continue doing the same things. "I’m still going to make the same type of music and still be ridiculous and larger than life," she said. "So I can’t be that f**king sorry about it."

According to Cosmo, the way Iggy sees it, "the reason some people hate her is the same reason a lot of other people love her, so what’s she supposed to do?" And as she put it herself, Iggy fans are "free thinkers," and "they have to be because if you thought what everybody else thought, you probably wouldn’t be a fan of mine."

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